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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

** Changed in: mahara/16.04
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614805

Title:
  Make out-of-sequence plugin upgrades consistent in CLI upgrader & web
  upgrader

Status in Mahara:
  Fix Released
Status in Mahara 15.04 series:
  Fix Released
Status in Mahara 15.10 series:
  Fix Released
Status in Mahara 16.04 series:
  Fix Released
Status in Mahara 16.10 series:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  In Bug 1614298 there were some differences of behavior between the CLI
  upgrader and the web upgrader, due to how they handled the out-of-
  sequence installation of the module/webservices plugin. This plugin is
  installed in the core lib/db/upgrade.php file, by a call to
  plugin_upgrade(), in order to make sure it gets installed instead of
  leaving it as an optional user-initiated installation.

  The CLI upgrader operates by running "check_upgrades()" at the
  beginning, which then looks at every component and plugin in Mahara to
  see which ones need to be upgraded. The return data includes the
  "installed" version number (retrieved from the database) and the "new"
  version number (from the version.php files on the filesystem). It then
  passes this data to "upgrade_mahara($data)", which loops over the
  array and runs the installer for each component.

  As a result, the webservices plugin was listed as needing upgrading,
  and then it got installed during the "core" upgrade step by the call
  to "upgrade_plugin()", and again by upgrade_mahara() when it looped
  through the listed plugins needing installation. The version number
  passed to the upgrade function by upgrade_mahara() was based on the
  initial call to check_upgrades() at the start of the script, causing
  the same upgrade block in the plugin's db/upgrade.php script to be
  executed twice.

  The AJAX upgrader didn't have this problem, because it re-checks the
  status of each plugin before running the upgrade function for that
  plugin. First the parent script calls "check_plugins()" to find all
  the plugins that need to be upgraded. Then it sends a request to
  upgrade.json.php for each upgrade component. And then upgrade.json.php
  calls check_plugins() again. It does this in order to retrieve the
  full data about the plugin; but it has the side effect of preventing
  the double-upgrading of plugins that were upgraded or installed out of
  order by core.

  It'd be best if both installation routes performed the same.

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